Dominion Design

"Just weights and measures" is our business philosophy - all customers are treated the same in every respect, and we charge for the work we do, nothing more and nothing less.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Hardening WordPress with htaccess

"A few emails have come through about how user’s WordPress installations have been compromised, or where an attacker has found resources he/she shouldn’t have. This article will discuss some security techniques to better harden and secure your WordPress blog; this is especially effective in a hosted environment"Full Article

Hardening your systems with Bastille Linux

"System administrators need to secure their systems while avoiding locking them down so strictly that they become useless. Bastille is a software tool that eases the process of hardening a Linux system, giving you the choice of what to lock down and what not to, depending on your security requirements. It bundles many of the tasks routinely done to securely configure a Linux system into one package."Full Story

Monday, August 13, 2007

Wordpress Security Update

"Today we have two security-related releases available for both users ofour main 2.2 branch and the legacy 2.0 branch. As these releasesinclude only security and minor bugfixes they should not cause anyplugin or theme compatibility issues, so you have no good excuse not toupgrade."

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Get SEO for Firefox Now !

"Want to know why Google or Yahoo! ranks pages? If so this is the Firefox extension for you. SEO for Firefox pulls in many useful marketing data points to make it easy get a more holistic view of the competitive landscape of a market right from the search results.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

"As a small business owner and a Web site marketer, I'm always trying to find ways to get things done without having to hire someone to do it for me. I'm also very impatient, and I like instant results. Sometimes this causes conflict, so whenever I can complete a task myself, everyone stays happy.

If you're at all like me, you might want to consider a Web site that will give you control over your content without the need to pay a designer to change a price, update a special, or swap some words around.

Clients who want to manage their own content are becoming more common as the Internet becomes less of a mystery. Every day, users gain knowledge – but many small business owners don’t have the time to devote to learning code and Web development applications. Building a Web site can be less of a mystery with a user-friendly software that allows the site owner to edit his or her own content."

"The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5."

It seems as though one of the “hottest topics” nowadays in the Search Engine Marketing industry is social bookmarking. All the search engine marketers are talking about it now, and if you’re a search engine marketer–or just a marketer in general–or want to get more hits on your website, then you need to pay attention to social bookmarking, too.

First, you need to create some link bait. If you’re not familiar with the term “link bait”, then you might want to read that article I wrote a while back–talks about how you can use link bait to “catch better rankings”.

"Mozilla's web browser, Firefox, is becoming increasingly popular, gaining on average an extra 3.1 per cent of the market in 32 European countries in the past four months, according to French web-monitoring company XiTi Monitor."

Google has announced a beefed-up version of Google Custom Search, a site search product aimed at small and medium sized businesses. The new service is hosted by Google, and offers all of the same functionality of the free Google Custom Search product, with a few key differences:

"Mobile search is a battle to define perhaps the most important new interface with the consumer," says John du Pre Gauntt, eMarketer Senior Analyst and the author of the new report, Mobile Search: Clash of the Titans. "Whoever cracks the consumer and commercial code for delivering and monetizing relevant answers for people on the go will secure a license to print money, at least for a time."

TV Consumes Half of All Leisure Time

"On an average day, nearly everyone in the US ages 15 and older engages in some sort of leisure activity, like watching TV, using a PC, socializing or exercising, according to the US Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics' "American Time Use Survey."Full Story

Wikipedia remains King for online news

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has added about 20 million unique monthly visitors in the past year, making it the top online news and information destination, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.

In May, Wikipedia had 46.8 million unique visitors, up 72 percent from June 2006, NetRatings said. Wikipedia also has finished on top of the news and information category every month this year -- ranking ahead of Landmark Communications' Weather Channel site by an increasing margin -- topping out with a disparity of about 10 million visitors in May.

"Multiple sources are confirming that the Chinese/Israeli startup behind the Maxthon Browser has sold a minority stake to Google. The total investment size is rumored to be around $1 million. We are also hearing that this investment is part of a “much larger strategic deal” between the two companies.

"Maxthon has had over 80 million downloads of its browser, and over half of its users are in China. Maxthon-originated searches may account for up to 25% of total Baidu traffic, according to one source."